Penny Royal
The magic and mystery of place.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 80 minutes
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Season Two, Episode Eleven: Road To Nowhere
Where are these roads leading us? Are they leading us to answers to the Penny Royal mystery? More circles, cycles and loops. The manifestation of the ouroboros, and the realization that we need to le…
Season Two, Episode Ten: Causeways
What is the Phenomena? Are magic and enchantment part of the Phenomena? We survey this season's guests about what they think the Phenomena is, and how magic and enchantment figure into their lives. A…
Season Two, Episode Nine: Through Darkest America
We surface from the subterranean passages into what Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to as "darkest America," and journey through the long night of traditionalism and fascism that has taken root. Stayin…
Season Two, Episode Eight: So Below
A dark constellation of roads and tunnels stretches under the surface of America. Sounds of strange machinery echo up from the depths. Are there secret underground bases in special locations across t…
Season Two, Episode Seven: As Above
One of the many faces of the Phenomena is the UFO and its mysterious occupants. There's a long and storied relationship between UFOs and Kentucky, and in recent years sightings and alien contact have…
Season Two, Episode Six: Trails & Traces
Local folklore suggests that Jesse and Frank James, two of America's most famous outlaws, may have been part of a secret society of Confederates that hid a cache of gold in Pulaski County, KY. But is…
Season Two, Episode Five: Yellow Brick Road
A suspicious set of documents comes into our possession and seems to be intimately related to our research. Gold and alchemy emerge as recurrent themes in the mystery. Are these symbols that we shoul…
Season Two, Episode Four: The Loop
Sometimes we find ourselves on roads that loop round to connect with themselves, returning the traveler to familiar places. Did Alexander Guterma, Mr. X, become a time-traveling tulpa? Are we being l…
Season Two, Episode Three: Hedgerows & Highways
We continue our journey across the psychic and supernatural landscape, following the otherworldly hedgerows and highways, corpse roads and ley lines that connect places of power and high strangeness,…
Season Two, Episode Two: Mystery Machine
We ride the highways along the 33rd Parallel into the Downardian Nightmare and discover the mystery of James Shelby Downard, Jr., his imaginary pet rabbit, Petey, and the Belligerent Rabbit Society. …
Season Two, Episode One: Wicked Ways
The occult history of the U.S. Transportation System leads us into the story of Route 66 and its connection to Freemasons, as well as the Masonic foundations of Somerset, Kentucky. Are roads both lit…
Season One, Episode One: Killer Meteors
Season One, Episode Two: Alien Space Bats
"They said that this creature undulated in the sky over them. And when it was directly overhead, they saw that it was actually transparent. If they looked hard enough, they could see the stars throug…
Season One, Episode Three: Dark and Bloody Ground
"It's got two names, right? Even the state has two names... one, the dark and bloody ground, but also the happy hunting ground, both of which would designate them as belonging to Pan, who is the mast…
Season One, Episode Four: Elkhorn
“I was overcome by curiosity at this point... this was all getting curiouser and curiouser seeming to me. Like it didn't seem quite real. I was real keen to see how far that was going to go. And in f…
Season One, Episode Five: Green Men
“The irony is not lost on me that we were afraid we were going to meet people that we had rumors were in these caverns worshipping the devil... at the end of the day, we ended up being the people in …
Season One, Episode Six: Mr. X
“He flies to LA, drives out to Roswell, kidnaps a baby, and then takes it back to the Philippines...”
Season One, Episode Seven: The Game
“They were having drug parties in the tunnels... they were doing seances, there's pentagrams on the floor, they're taking the meds from the residents and divvying them up... and it all started when t…
Season One, Episode Eight: Time and Place
“Magic exist outside of space and time, so when you do magic, really what you do is project your consciousness outside of space and time, and from that vantage point you see a tapestry of everything …